isang18
Maybe Indiana but probably Greece
I should have stayed home and watched Chicago Med
I'll acknowledge that seasons 1 and 2 were a very hard act to follow and that expectations may have been unduly high. For a short time. My expectations were brutally squashed in the episode 1 reality check. Episode 1 was a huge red flag when half the doctors of a rural hospital in the woods ended up playing geopolitics on a coastguard vessel in the East Sea as though there were no such thing as a Korean Navy or a hospital with a helipad on the Gangwon coast. It slightly improved in the next few episodes but 7 and 8 were unbearably loaded with a perfect storm of cliche catastrophes... and that was it for me.
You may argue with me about this but I feel that this series unwisely went from character driven to plot driven. The plots are indistinguishable from the high-octane junk that American television serves in the slot that follows CSI: Fort Wayne or whatever. And the worst part was that half the plot was driven by nosy characters lurking behind every corner and door. The walls in that place might as well have been painted with ears. The first two series were bad for that but this show used up half the world's annual supply of eavesdropping. This is when they were not tripping over each other as all departmental boundaries and organizational discipline were thrown into the wind like it was Chicago Frickin' Med on a full moon.
And yet it may have been the smarter choice to let it be plot driven. Apart from Nurse Park the characters have failed to evolve in our absence. Kim Sabu was the Anti-House Zen Master in 1 and 2. Here he's a toothless, ageing tiger pacing in his cage and swatting at things he doesn't like. Dr Jung and Dr Yang and the other characters who didn't really want to be there last time have let themselves be trapped in BFE for the last three years... why? Dr Cha Sr. has no valid reason to even be there. ("Chief") Manager Jang still doesn't manage to cross the line from village idiot to credible comic relief. The nursing staff is still one All-Knowing Matron, one Tall Dark and Handsome, and a chorus of undeveloped chittering halfwits. The romantically involved couples are in some kind of middle class rut.
It's not good. DR3 veered past my lowest expectations and crashed into my worst fears.
Dropped, unfortunately.
You may argue with me about this but I feel that this series unwisely went from character driven to plot driven. The plots are indistinguishable from the high-octane junk that American television serves in the slot that follows CSI: Fort Wayne or whatever. And the worst part was that half the plot was driven by nosy characters lurking behind every corner and door. The walls in that place might as well have been painted with ears. The first two series were bad for that but this show used up half the world's annual supply of eavesdropping. This is when they were not tripping over each other as all departmental boundaries and organizational discipline were thrown into the wind like it was Chicago Frickin' Med on a full moon.
And yet it may have been the smarter choice to let it be plot driven. Apart from Nurse Park the characters have failed to evolve in our absence. Kim Sabu was the Anti-House Zen Master in 1 and 2. Here he's a toothless, ageing tiger pacing in his cage and swatting at things he doesn't like. Dr Jung and Dr Yang and the other characters who didn't really want to be there last time have let themselves be trapped in BFE for the last three years... why? Dr Cha Sr. has no valid reason to even be there. ("Chief") Manager Jang still doesn't manage to cross the line from village idiot to credible comic relief. The nursing staff is still one All-Knowing Matron, one Tall Dark and Handsome, and a chorus of undeveloped chittering halfwits. The romantically involved couples are in some kind of middle class rut.
It's not good. DR3 veered past my lowest expectations and crashed into my worst fears.
Dropped, unfortunately.
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